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Diamond Field-Emission Cathodes as High-Brightness Electron Sources

Diamond Field-Emission Cathodes as High-Brightness Electron Sources. Bo Choi, Jonathan Jarvis, and Charles Brau Vanderbilt University . Diamond Field Emission Cathode. DFEAs are rugged alternative to photocathode The cathodes are not damaged by exposure to air.

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Diamond Field-Emission Cathodes as High-Brightness Electron Sources

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  1. Diamond Field-Emission Cathodes as High-Brightness Electron Sources Bo Choi, Jonathan Jarvis, and Charles Brau Vanderbilt University

  2. Diamond Field Emission Cathode • DFEAs are rugged alternative to photocathode • The cathodes are not damaged by exposure to air. • Operating vacuum: <10-6torr • Fowler-Nordheimturnneling • Max. current: ~10 uA per tip • Designable parameters: density and height • Individual emitters have exquisitely small emittance

  3. Ungated Diamond FEA fabrication procedure • All in-house capable with VINSE facilities • Preliminary field emission test (DC) can be performed for screening before delivery

  4. Pyramidal mold fabrication by KOH etch Cr/ SiO2 hard mask • 100 nm Cr layer or 300 nm SiO2 layer works fine for up to 5 um base pyramidal molds Cr hard mask Final reverse pyramidal molds

  5. Microwave Plasma CVD system provides reliable diamond growth • SEKI AX5200M • Water cooled induction heating stage • Custom-designed susceptor cover • DC bias module • Turbomolecular pump • Low substrate temperature • Optimum plasma location • Results • Higher film quality • Repeatability • Uniformity (2 inch)

  6. Bias-enhanced nucleation (BEN) improves surface structure of nanodiamond • Shallow ion implantation (carbon cluster) • 200 V 20 min. – 30 min. • Initial nucleation current: 70 – 100 mA around 2 inch area • Nucleation current drops by 20 % during nucleation • Sonication with diamond powders is still used before BEN 10 min 30 min 60 min

  7. Diamond Deposition Recipes (I: nanodiamond) • First layer of pyramid is nanodiamond • Substrate : 650 deg. C • Microwave 700 W • 20 Torr • H2 300 sccm/ CH4 15 sccm/ (N2 15 sccm) Nanodiamond N2 Doped layer Nanodiamond SiO2 Si

  8. Diamond Deposition Recipes (II: microdiamond) • Interior of pyramid is filled with microdiamond • Substrate : 650 deg. C • Microwave 1300 W • 50 Torr • H2 300 sccm/ CH4 3 sccm

  9. Brazing system • Requirements • Vacuum brazing for gap filling • Uniform over 2-inch diameter • Best adhesion with diamond and Mo • Solutions • Vacuum hot plate • Ti-Cu-Ag alloy needs over 800 deg. C to melt • Polishing • Optimizing thermal loads Si Nanodiamond Microdiamond Ti-Cu-Ag Alloy Mo Plate

  10. Brazing apparatus and techniques make possible larger cathodes and improved yield • Three points holding by spring clips • Polished Mo Heater block • Polished and cleaned Mo plates

  11. Improved fabrication techniques producelarge, uniform arrays with improved yield 7 um pitch • Thin diamond layer allows brazing of large arrays • Requires no additional edge treatment: 4 um pitch

  12. Gated Diamond FEA fabrication procedure • Volcano process • SOI process

  13. Preliminary DC test

  14. Excellent uniformity after hitting >1uA/tip

  15. Conduction through diamond film and FN tunneling FN tunneling behaviors across a vacuum gap I-V characteristics across diamond films

  16. Uniformity: dark spots

  17. Emittance test result the normalized rms transverse emittance for a 1-cm diameter cathode array is 9.28 mm-mrad at 2.1kV: pepperpot 50um, L~3.56mm.

  18. Individual field emitters provide electron beams with exquisite brightness • Diamond tip and self-aligned gate comprise monolithic structure • Tip radius ~6 nm • Tip current is switched by ~70 V gate bias • Measured current ~ 15 mA • Simulations indicate normalized emittance ~ 1.3 nm • Mostly spherical aberration • Heisenberg limit ~ 1 pm possible from ungated tip

  19. Channeling radiation from tightly focused electrons produces brilliant, hard X-rays • MeV electrons in crystals produce channeling radiation • Theory and experiments are well established • Hard x-ray emission possible from a diamond chip • 70-keV photons from 35-MeV electrons • Requires modest rflinac • High spectral brilliance requires exquisite electron beam emittance • 1012ph/s/mm2/0.1%BW • Requires 200-nA average current 1-nm normalized emittance 40-nm focal spot on diamond • These parameters have never been explored in an rflinac • Propose new type cathode • Explore emittance growth • Theory/simulation • Experiment

  20. Simulations use several codes to describe different sections of x-ray source • Cathode modeled with IMPACT-T • Backed up by CPO • Rf sections modeled with ASTRA • Backed up by PARMELA • Focusing modeled with ELEGANT • May add GEANT inside diamond • Calculations done by • NIU/Fermilab • Vanderbilt • Lewellen • Pasour

  21. Computer simulations of field emission show exquisitely small emittance is possible • IMPACT-T (Piot, Mihalcea) • CPO (Brau, Jarvis, Ericson) • Codes agree • Few nm emittance (2.7 nm) • Space charge negligible: • space charge calculation with a mean-field and apoint-to-point space charge algorithms give similar results as single-particle calculation. Slice emittance with pulse

  22. CPO simulations confirm small emittance • CPO uses different computational methods • Has been tested against experiments • Computed emittance of gated emitter is 2 nm • CPO will be used to design cathodes for test at VU and use at Fermilab

  23. FE cathode in rf gun • Gate the cathode with dc, fundamental, and third-harmonic bias • Advantages: • Simple gun and rf power exist at HBESL • Emission amplitude and phase decoupled from cavity field • Disadvantages • Complex cathode • Possible spherical aberration

  24. Emittance preservation during acceleration to 40 MeV • Simulation of gated cathode in the an RFgun followed by a LINAC • Transverse emittance ~10 nm is preserved during acceleration • Longitudinal emittanceincreases due to the long bunch (distortions) Transverse emittance evolution along beamlinefor different fraction of the beam population Qtotal=25 fC 100% 95% 90% 80% gun CAV1 CAV2

  25. Normalized population) x (m) Optimization of focusing will be carried out using the code ELEGANT • Focusing limited by chromatic aberration • Energy spread caused by “long” pulse length in rf cycle • This is not a fundamental limit: in an optimized accelerator one would use a higher-frequency rf system to linearize the longitudinal phase space Preliminary simulation for Qtotal=25 fC ~500-100 e- are within 50 nm spot size

  26. Simulations look very promising, so now we hope to do experiments on A0 injector this year • First experiments will use ungated cathode array • Array brazed directly to cathode plug of A0 gun • Cathode in fabrication at Vanderbilt • Ungated array will not have good emittance • Might be useful for early x-ray experiments

  27. As they are fabricated, cathodes will be tested at Vanderbilt in small DC test stand (mini-gun) • Test stand developed for Navy program • Measure “transistor characteristics” • I-V with gate control • Maximum current • Data for tests at A0 • Measure divergence • Estimate emittance • Too small to measure

  28. Simulation and result of minigun

  29. Summary • Diamond is the hardest substance • Diamond FEA shows high-brightness in DC test • Rfgun test is on going with Fermi Lab. and Niowave • Gated structure is under way • Conduction mechanism through diamond and field emission mechanism are not clearly understood yet

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